Maverick Genius
Page 38
37. Ibid., p. 320.
38. FJD in NYRB, 17 August 1989.
39. Selected, p. 48.
40. Eros, p. 8.
41. Ibid., p. 309.
42. Ibid., p. 188.
14. NUCLEAR SLAVERY
1. Eros, p. 338.
2. W&H, title page.
3. Frank von Hippel, Physics Today, November 1984; charts showing buildup of stockpiles at NYT, 8 April 2010.
4. W&H, p. 201.
5. W&H, p. 223.
6. Ibid., p. 224.
7. Ibid., p. 227.
8. Ibid., p. 230.
9. Ibid., p. 231.
10. Ibid., p. 245.
11. Ibid., p. 181.
12. Ibid., p. 187.
13. Ibid., p. 300.
14. Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (New York: Penguin, 2010), p. 47.
15. W&H, p. 273.
16. Ibid., p. 275.
17. Ibid., p. 290.
18. Ibid., p. 297.
19. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Organic Anthology, Stephen E. Whicher, ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), p. 355.
20. W&H, p. viii.
21. PT, November 1984.
22. W&H, p. 41.
23. FJD, Edward Teller obituary, National Academy of Sciences, 2007.
24. Eros, p. 76.
25. Ibid., p. 74.
26. Rebel, p. 127.
27. Eros, p. 72.
28. W&H, p. 308.
29. Eros, p. 81.
30. Ibid., p. 83.
31. Infinite, p. 249.
32. David E. Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Deadly Legacy (New York: Doubleday, 2009), p. 23.
33. PFS interview with Harold Feiveson; estimates of possible fatalities under SIOP discussed by David Alan Rosenberg in Race for the Superbomb, aired January 1999 by the PBS program The American Experience, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/reference/interview/rosenberg02.html.
34. Hoffman, The Dead Hand, p. 16.
35. Infinite, p. 250.
36. Eros, p. 87.
37. Rebel, p. 129.
38. Infinite, p. 243.
39. PT, November 1994.
40. PFS interview with Charles Ferguson.
41. PFS interview with Robert Moore.
42. Eros, p. 87.
15. THE ARC OF LIFE
1. Glass, p. 58.
2. Origins, p. 38.
3. Ibid., p. 65.
4. Infinite, p. 96.
5. Selected, p. 46.
6. PFS interview with Carl Woese.
7. Origins, p. 89.
8. Infinite, p. xi.
9. Starship, p. 158.
10. Sun, p. 81.
11. Eros, p. 64.
12. Infinite, p. 196.
13. FJD in Science, 1 October 1999.
14. Glass, p. 117; Infinite, p. 165.
15. Glass, p. 117.
16. Ibid., p. 106.
17. Rebel, p. 296.
18. Ibid., p. 298.
19. Glass, p. 173.
20. Sun, p. 102.
21. Ibid., p. 103.
22. Infinite, p. 118.
23. Ibid., p. 99.
24. FJD in Review of Modern Physics, 3 July 1979, p. 453.
25. Ibid., p. 454.
26. Infinite, p. 99.
27. Selected, p. 45.
28. FJD in Review of Modern Physics, p. 454.
29. Ibid., p. 455.
30. Ibid., p. 456.
31. Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman, SA, November 1999.
32. NYT, 1 January 2002.
33. Lawrence M. Krauss, Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth … and Beyond (Boston: Little, Brown, 2001), p. 279.
34. Glass, p. 93.
35. Infinite, p. 9.
16. GOD AND MAN AT PRINCETON
1. Printed program and audiotapes of “Around the Dyson Sphere,” IAS archives.
2. PFS interview with Frank Wilczek.
3. PFS interview with IJ.
4. PFS interviews with Esther Dyson and IJ.
5. PFS interview with Rebecca Dyson.
6. Infinite, p. xi.
7. Ibid., p. xii.
8. Ibid., p. 294.
9. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), p. 100.
10. Infinite, p. 255.
11. Ibid., p. 295.
12. Disturbing, p. 249.
13. PFS interview with Lawrence Krauss.
14. Disturbing, p. 246.
15. Infinite, p. 100.
16. Ibid., p. 116.
17. Ibid., p. 117.
18. Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, Ann Druyan, ed. (New York: Penguin, 2006), p. 30.
19. Infinite, p. 296.
20. Glass, p. 132.
21. Henry James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Penguin, 1982; originally published, 1902), p. 53.
22. Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, p. 218.
23. Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking, 2006), p. 249.
24. Rebel, p. 350.
25. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher, ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, paperback edition, Riverside, 1960), p. 193.
26. FJD in Cornwell, ed., Nature’s Imagination, p. 8.
27. Peter Atkins in ibid., p. 123.
28. FJD in ibid., p. 10.
29. Peter Atkins in ibid., p. 125.
30. Rebel, p. 330.
31. Glass, p. 134.
32. Imagined, p. 9.
33. Glass, p. 139.
34. Rebel, p. 336.
35. Infinite, p. 119.
36. Ibid.
37. Steven Weinberg, Lake Views: This World and the Universe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), p. 21.
38. Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (New York: Harper & Row, 1956), pp. 52–64.
39. Sun, p. 74.
40. FJD Ad Portas speech as recorded in “The Wykehamist,” Winchester College, June 1995.
41. FJD acceptance speech for Templeton Prize, May 2000, http://www.templetonprize.org.
42. Physics World magazine, June 2000.
43. Dawkins part of discussion about the Templeton Prize, discussion forum at the Edge Foundation, 13 April 2006, http://www.edge.org/discourse/templeton_index.html.
44. Dawkins, The God Delusion, p. 18.
45. Infinite, p. 118.
46. Emerson, Selections, p. 20.
17. SPLINTERING THE SPECIES
1. WEB, 22.
2. PFS interview with Lawrence Krauss.
3. Dennett, Breaking the Spell, p. 262.
4. FJD in NYRB, 24 March 2004, reprinted in Rebel, p. 330.
5. Rebel, p. 331.
6. Ibid.
7. FJD in This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future, John Brockman, ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), p. 146.
8. Rebel, p. 332.
9. FJD Foreword to Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind (New York: Bantam, 2007).
10. FJD in NYRB, 25 September 2008.
11. FJD interviewed by Environment 360, Yale University, 4 June 2009.
12. FJD in NYRB, 10 November 2011.
13. Selected, p. 44; Eros, p. 135.
14. FJD in Energy, vol. 2, p. 287 (1977).
15. Eros, p. 238.
16. Rebel, p. 59.
17. Ibid., p. 65.
18. Arnold Bloom et al., Science, 14 May 2010.
19. Rebel, p. 65.
20. Glass, p. 8.
21. Rebel, p. 182.
22. FJD in NYRB, 19 July 2007; Glass, p. 9.
23. FJD in NYRB, 19 July 2007.
24. Disturbing, p. 179; Glass, p. 27.
25. WEB, 133.
26. Disturbing, p. 169.
27.
Ibid., p. 170.
28. Glass, p. 29.
29. Ibid., p. 32.
30. FJD in NYRB, 19 July 2007.
31. Lee Silver, Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), p. 225.
32. Ibid., p. 267.
33. PFS interview with Lee Silver.
34. PFS interview with Laurence Potts.
35. PFS interview with Roy Schwitters.
36. Sun, p. 108.
37. Ibid., p. 111.
38. FJD interviewed by Salon.com, 27 September 2007.
39. PFS interview with Lee Silver.
40. FJD at “Life: What a Concept,” transcript of a discussion organized by Edge Foundation, August 2007, www.edge.org
41. Sun, p. 112; Infinite, p. 287.
42. Sun, p. 113.
43. Imagined, p. 99.
44. Rebel, p. 288.
45. Eros, p. 342.
46. Disturbing, p. 192.
47. FJD interview in Wired, February 1998.
48. Disturbing, p. 233.
49. Infinite, p. 128.
50. Sun, p. 47.
51. Ibid., p. 99.
52. Infinite, p. 134.
53. Glass, p. 125.
18. LONG-TERM THINKING
1. Reiner Stach, Kafka: The Decisive Years, translated by Shelley Frisch (New York: Harcourt, 2005; originally published, 2002), p. 3.
2. Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/2204173674/sizes/o/.
3. Disturbing, p. 192.
4. Ibid., p. 193.
5. Cornwell, Nature’s Imagination, p. 2.
6. Seminar at Long Now Foundation, 5 October 2005; video on YouTube.
7. PFS interviews with IJ and Esther Dyson.
8. Infinite, p. 45.
9. The Making of Kubrick’s 2001, Jerome Agel, ed. (New York: Signet, 1970), p. 142.
10. PFS interview with Cees Dekker.
11. NYT, 30 May 2010.
12. FJD quoted in news summary of Craig Venter’s chemically synthesized genome, Edge Foundation website, 20 May 2010.
13. FJD in Is Science Nearing Its Limits?, George Steiner, ed. (Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 2008), p. 155.
14. FJD in NYRB, 10 March 2011.
15. PFS interview with IJ.
16. FJD in NYRB, 23 October 2008.
17. PFS interview with Esther Dyson.
18. PFS interview with IJ.
19. PFS interview with Esther Dyson.
20. FJD, John S. Lewis, and Lee Valentine, Open Letter to Congress, 10 September 2010, Space Studies Institute.
21. FJD remarks at Arthur C. Clarke Foundation awards banquet, 5 April 2011.
22. PFS interview with Roy Schwitters.
23. FJD biographical sketch of John Wheeler, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1 March 2010.
24. FJD in NYRB, 13 August 2009.
25. Ibid., 10 March 2011.
26. Ibid., 10 November 2011.
27. Ibid., 22 December 2011.
28. Ibid., 10 June 2010.
29. PFS interview with Rebecca Dyson.
30. Eros, p. 339.
31. FJD in Living Philosophies, Clifton Fadiman, ed. (New York: Doubleday, 1990).
32. Essay by FJD from Living Philosophies, reprinted in Eros, p. 341.
33. Disturbing, p. 252.
34. Origins, p. 67.
35. FJD interviewed by Marty Nemko, 15 May 2011, www.spokenword.org/program/1512702.
36. Infinite, p. 289.
INDEX
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Abarbanel, Henry
A-bomb
Davy Crockett warhead as
detonation of
fission and
Frayn’s Copenhagen play and
molecular bombs and
Muller and
units of fission energy
Vietnam War use of
Abrahamson, James
ACDA. See Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
active optics
Adams, John
adaptive optics
Adler, Stephen
advanced civilization types
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
AEC. See Atomic Energy Commission
AEC General Advisory Committee
The Age of Wonder (Holmes)
Albuquerque trip (summer 1948)
Aldrin, Buzz
analyst
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor trip (1948)
antimatter
Apollo approach
applied mathematics
as killing machine’s tool
MONICA and
World War II uses of
Aquinas, Thomas
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)
Around the Dyson Sphere
as IAS’s retirement event
talks at
ARPA. See Advanced Research Projects Agency
art
Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
Arthur Lectures (New York University), on time and far future
Ash Wednesday (Eliot)
assault
assured destruction
asteroids
Astrochicken, as biologically grown space craft
astrophysics
Atkey, Freeman (uncle)
Atkins, Peter
atomic bomb. See A-bomb
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
atomic nucleus
awards, honors and honorary degrees
Clarke Foundation’s lifetime achievement award
Oersted Medal
Templeton Prize
B-52 bomber base visit
Bahcall, John
Baidarka (Dyson, G.)
bandwagon effect
bargaining chips
a “Beach,” as unit of fission energy
Beatles
Berkeley, CA trip (1953)
Dyson-Schmidt equation and
as summer vacation
Berkeley trip, CA (1955)
Bernal, John Desmond
Bernstein, Jeremy
Besicovitch, Abram
Bethe, Hans
career helped by
first impressions of
graduate recommendation from
improved equations of
as Los Alamos bomb design head
sixty-second encounter with
on sunshine theory
big bang theory
biological materials
biosphere genome. See also genome; The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet
biotechnology
genetic research and
genetically modified food and
growing importance of
risks and ethics of
Birbeck College
Bird, Kai
Birmingham, England
birth
black swans
analogy of
symmetry and
Blake, William
Bohm, David
Bohr, Niels
Boltzmann, Ludwig
bomb shelters
Bomber Command
bombs. See A-bomb; H-bomb; neutron bomb; nuclear weapons
“Bombs and Poetry”
Bondi, Hermann
books written. See also Disturbing the Universe; From Eros to Gaia; Imagined Worlds; Infinite in All Directions; A Many Colored Glass; Origins of Life; The Scientist as Rebel; The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet; Weapons and Hope
Bragg, William L.
brain
Breaking the Spell (Dennett)
Brennan, Donald
Broch, Henri
Bronowski, Jacob
Brower, Kenneth
Californ
ia Institute of Technology
Cambridge University
best friends at
Dirac’s lectures at
fellowship from
field theory focus at
Hardy’s influence on
Kemmer as mentor at
night climbing
published papers at
quantum science study at
reductionist philosophy meeting at
Tarner Lectures at
at Trinity College
cancer
Candide (Voltaire)
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
carbon dioxide (CO2)
Case, Kenneth
celestial creation
Chaucer, Geoffrey
chemical propulsion
childhood. See also education
books read in
children. See also Dyson, Dorothy; Dyson, Emily; Dyson, Esther; Dyson, George; Dyson, Miriam; Dyson, Rebecca; Huber, Katarina
custody of
education of
plan for six
on stillborn child
Chu, Steven
Churchill, Winston
Clark, Kenneth
Clarke, Arthur C.
on future’s prediction
last encounter with
Stapledon’s influence on
Clarke Foundation’s lifetime achievement award
classical fields
climate change. See global warming
CO2. See carbon dioxide
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament
Coalition for Peace Action. See also Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament
Cocconi, Giuseppe. See also search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Morrison-Cocconi papers and
radio method of space exploration
Cold War
bomb shelters and
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and
end of
nuclear weapons testing in
radiation death rate in
Soviet defense-by-bluff
Soviet threat in
comets, Dyson trees and
Commedia (Dante), Star Maker compared with
Communist Party
computer simulations, of climate change
consciousness. See also Cosmic Unity; world soul
collective
complexity calculation and
energy and
as mind’s invasion of matter
Penrose on
universe’s drama and
constants, of nature
containment
convergence theory
Cooke, Alistair
Copenhagen (Frayn), as play about Bohr and Heisenberg
Copenhagen school
Cornell University
Bethe at
Huber, V., mathematics instructorship at
as mathematician at
physics courses at
professorship at
quantum field theory immersion at
Cosmic Unity
adult version of
experience of
mother’s conversation about
cosmology
Sagan on
on universe’s expansion
Crick, Francis